[OpenBIOS] [PATCH] Generate Makefile dependencies also from Forth files

[Blue Swirl]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber at web.de> wrote:
> Am 30.12.2010 um 20:35 schrieb Blue Swirl:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber at web.de>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Am 30.12.2010 um 18:57 schrieb Blue Swirl:
>>>
>>>> Dependencies between Forth files were not detected, so
>>>> dictionaries were not regenerated automatically in some cases.
>>>>
>>>> Introduce '-M' flag to forthstrap to dump dependency information
>>>> in Makefile compatible format, based on the Forth 'include'
>>>> directives.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Neat idea! If it works, fine with me.
>>
>> Seems to work:
>
> [...]
>>
>> After touching forth/bootstrap/bootstrap.fs (which is not included in
>> rules.mak), make rebuilds bootstrap.dict.
>
> You didn't accidentally spot an easy way to speed up forthstrap, did you? It
> sits there for quite some time here and would - correctly - do so more often
> now.

We're compiling the dictionary twice to detect relocations. Maybe it
would be possible to handle the relocations more intelligently so that
only one pass (or even just parse the sources only once) would be
needed. IIRC there was some discussion earlier.